SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

on text data mining and its interpretation as an exception to allegations of copyright infringement, SpicyIP Fellowship applicant Tanishka Goswami highlights the key findings of the Court and explores the probable lessons for Indian policymakers in harmonizing copyright with AI and innovation. Her previous post can be accessed here.

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Plagiarism Today

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The Copyright Claims Board has handed three more determinations, including one fair use issue and two questions on damages. The post 3 New Copyright Claims Board Decisions appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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Traverse Legal Blog

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

The infringer owes at a minimum a reasonable royalty to the copyright holder. Enrico Schaefer, Copyright & Litigation Attorney. What Is Accidental Copyright Infringement. 2024 Update) Accidental copyright infringement occurs when someone unknowingly violates copyright law.

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JD Supra Law

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

that the defendants unauthorized use of the plaintiffs copyrighted materials to train its legal research AI tool was not fair use. This ruling is the first reported case to address whether the use of copyrighted training data for AI training constitutes fair use. ROSS Intelligence Inc.

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Copyright Lately

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Ross Intelligence will get plenty of second looks from courts deciding fair use in generative AI copyright cases. Those were some of the phrases legal commentators used to describe Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts v. Goldsmith in the days following the Supreme Courts 2023 landmark fair use decision.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 2, 2025

ABSTRACT Technology advancements are linked to copyright, which gives authors of original works of literature, music, drama, or art, as well as audio recordings and cinematic films, a legal claim over their creations. Every day, there are several ways that someone’s copyright is violated on social networking sites.

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IP and Legal Filings

DECEMBER 23, 2024

INTRODUCTION AND CONTEMPORARY RELEVANCE Ever since ANI filed a lawsuit against OpenAI for alleged infringement of its copyright, existing discrepancies in the legal framework surrounding its permissible bounds have cropped up, and policymakers all over hope to receive much-needed clarity on the issue through the medium of this verdict.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

If you’ve had any issues with copyright over the past few years, whether you are on YouTube, Facebook or even operating your own website, it’s probable that your issue didn’t start with a human, but with a bot. According to YouTube, their automated Content ID system handles over 98% of copyright issues on the site.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 27, 2024

The American copyright industry is one of the country’s primary exports, generating billions of dollars in annual revenue. To protect the interests of these businesses around the world, copyright holder groups can count on help from the U.S. law but go further on some issues, could lead to problems in the African country.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

In order to train their technologies, should AI companies be allowed to use works under copyright protection without consent? Such uses, they argue, constitute copyright infringement. Fair Use Precedent? As such, it was permissible under United States copyright law.

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JD Supra Law

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

In one of the most closely-watched copyright cases this year, a Delaware court rejected defendant, ROSS Intelligences (ROSS), fair use and other defenses by vacating its previous stance and granting summary judgement in favor of plaintiff, Thomson Reuters (Reuters).

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Yesterday, news broke that Pearson Education, the largest publisher of textbooks in the world, has filed a lawsuit against the website Chegg alleging widespread copyright infringement of its content on the site. As a result, Pearson is suing Chegg alleging copyright infringement. Questions, Answers and Copyright.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 10, 2022

For independent creators, every hour spent working on one’s copyright is an hour not spent on creating new work or running their business. As such, many creators either neglect their work’s copyright protection or pay someone else to handle it, often at great cost. Copyright Office. Copyright Office fees.

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JD Supra Law

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Fair use a critical defense in copyright law that allows limited use of copyrighted material without permission has emerged as a key battleground in the wave of artificial intelligence (AI) copyright litigation.

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JD Supra Law

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

1:20-cv-613, potentially shaping how future courts will analyze transformative use and intermediate copying of copyrighted works used to train artificial intelligence models. The decisions generally favor the copyright holders but appear to spare generative AI defendants. ROSS Intelligence Inc.,

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The Illusion of More

JULY 11, 2024

In February 2023, I argued that using copyrighted works for the purpose of training generative artificial intelligence (GAI) products is not fair use.

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JD Supra Law

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

The first 24 hours of punditry on Judge Stephanos Bibass summary judgment of no fair use in Thomson Reuters v. has largely oscillated between predictions that the decision destroys fair use defenses in the pending generative AI copyright litigations, or that the decision is entirely irrelevant to those cases.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The new technology also brings up novel copyright issues. For example, several rightsholders are worried that their work is being used to train and exploit AI without any form of compensation. The only claim that wasn’t contested by OpenAI is direct copyright infringement, which the company plans to address at a later stage.

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JD Supra Law

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

a first-of-its-kind decision addressing whether fair use is. Its not common for a federal judge to make such an admission, but that is exactly what Judge Bibas of the United States District Court for the District of Delaware did in his recent opinion in Thomson Reuters Enterprise Centre GMBH v. Ross Intelligence Inc.,

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 18, 2025

The plaintiff apparently owned the copyrights to both videos and sued XXL for copyrght infringement. Instead, XXL relied on a fair use defense, which works: Nature of use: “the video was the subject of the news story and because the article added new information and context about the contents of the video.”

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 4, 2022

This prompted Alexander to file a lawsuit against Take-Two, claiming copyright infringement of her work. He called an earlier decision in the case one of the 5 worst copyright decisions in 2020 and, with the jury verdict, called it a loss for bodily autonomy and free speech. Instead, she only won actual damages totaling $3,750.

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JD Supra Law

APRIL 23, 2025

Artificial intelligence presents so many opportunities, but there are still so many questions in relation to copyright law. What constitutes fair use? How much human input satisfies the human authorship requirement? Can federal or state legislation address the deepfake problem?

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 22, 2022

Soon after and in mysterious circumstances, copyright law entered the equation. On October 29, 2020, a business entity called Bayside Advisory LLC contacted Twitter stating that since it owns the copyrights in the six photos, they should be taken down under the DMCA. DMCA Takedowns Followed by DMCA Subpoena.

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Copyright Alliance

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

As seen in parts 1 and part 2 of our blog series, where there is art, there are artists who love to push boundaries, particularly in copyright law. This is […] The post Copyright Cases Visual Artists Should Know: Part 3, Fair Use appeared first on Copyright Alliance.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Today’s social media users see copyright conflicts on a regular basis, but probably due to the way copyright is enforced, tend to view images and text as faiir game when compared to movies and music. In Japan, where the concept of fair use isn’t recognized, there’s arguably less cause for confusion.

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The IPKat

APRIL 6, 2025

Copyright Law by Angela Chung Do everything by hand, even when using the computer. Many lament the extractive nature of accessible art outputs, where AI companies train first and ask for forgiveness (fair use) later. Here's what Angela writes: Ghiblification and the Moral Wrongs of U.S.

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The Illusion of More

APRIL 16, 2025

The purpose of cultivating works of authorship is to shed light on human experience, and the foundational purpose of the fair use doctrine in copyright law is to shed light on works of authorship. From its 18th century, English roots to the U.S. Supreme Courts 2023 decision in AWF v.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 19, 2022

Someone on the internet has breached Watch Tower’s copyrights and, as a result, their true names and addresses should be handed over so that the group can seek remedy for infringement. However, Watch Tower is still pursuing a parallel copyright infringement lawsuit against McFree in another court. Watch Tower doesn’t care.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 29, 2025

We are very happy to announce the results of the 2024 Shamnad Basheer Essay Competition on Intellectual Property Law! In doing so, the essay highlights the paradoxical stance of companies on training other ML systems using the output generated by their own ML systems and discusses the copyrightability of ML system-generated output, if any.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 26, 2021

As we’ve discussed in the past , copyright has played an oddly oversized role in our modern Halloween festivities. However, one of the areas that is generally less talked about is copyright’s impact on Halloween costumes. Copyright and Halloween Costumes. Copyright Office. However, copyright is only half the picture.

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IP Law 360

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

ROSS Intelligence is not likely to have lasting effect in view of the avalanche of artificial intelligence decisions to come, but the court made two points that will resonate with copyright owners who are disputing technology companies' unlicensed use of copyright-protected materials to train generative AI models, says David Ben-Meir at Ben-Meir Law (..)

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

The law says that this can only take place off-site, with teachers and authorities’ involvement limited to releasing children into the hands of third-party organizations for instruction elsewhere. “Copyright law is not a tool to punish or silence critics.

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IP Law 360

AUGUST 19, 2024

A New York federal judge said Monday that the fair use exception to copyright law is fatal to former U.S. George Santos' suit against ABC and Jimmy Kimmel over video clips that the late-night TV show host tricked the ex-congressman into making.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

McDermott kept the copyright to those photo and granted NY Post a license. The article included multiple photos of Sewell, including the photo in question , and the Post apparently liked the image so much that they used a portion of the photo as the background for the newspaper cover that day (see screenshot at right).

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Copyright Lately

OCTOBER 20, 2024

million in copyright damages against Skiplagged—but the website’s business model remains largely unaffected. Yes, there was a copyright infringement claim in the mix, based on Skiplagged’s use of American’s “flight symbol” logo. Jury awards American Airlines $9.4 Talk about a case of the tail wagging the dog.

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Creative Law Center

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

A federal court has ruled that using copyrighted material to train AI models does not qualify as fair use. The post Court Rejects Fair Use for AI Training appeared first on Creative Law Center. But the story is not over.

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Intepat

JANUARY 10, 2025

Introduction Copyright law plays a crucial role in regulating the distribution and protection of creative works, but its impact is not uniform across the world. In the Global South, the challenges posed by copyright law are particularly significant, often hindering access to knowledge and limiting opportunities for development.

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